What can I put in the compost bin?

Like any recipe, your compost relies on the right ingredients to make it work. Good things you can compost include vegetable peelings, fruit waste, teabags, plant prunings and grass cuttings. These are considered “Greens.” Greens are quick to rot and they provide important nitrogen and moisture. Other things you can compost include cardboard egg boxes, scrunched up paper and fallen leaves. These are considered “Browns” and are slower to rot. They provide fibre and carbon and also allow important air pockets to form in the mixture. Crushed eggshells can be included to add useful minerals.

Yes

No

Vegetable Peelings / Egg Shells

Cooked Vegetables / Bread / Meat Scraps / Bones

Fruit Scraps

Materials Infected with Persistant Diseases e.g. Potato Blight

Tea Bags / Coffee Grounds

Pernicious Weeds e.g.Bind Weed / Weeds with Seed heads

Grass Cuttings

Large Unchopped Woody Branches

Finely Chopped or Shredded Shrub Prunnings

Cat or Dog Litter

Garden Weeds / Straw & Hay

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